Reification, Resentment, and the Enduring Appeal of Right-Wing Rhetoric
A Review of Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose
Fascism
The Promise of Video Games
Helldivers 2 uses the video game form to raise fundamental questions about agency and intention. Unfortunately, like so much of the culture industry, it ultimately compromises its core message for the typical rewards of the entertainment industry.
How Nazi Billionaires Escaped Justice at Nuremberg
Although they shared responsibility for the crimes committed by the Third Reich, many German capitalists got off easy because Washington saw them as potential allies in the Cold War with the USSR.
Is Trump Hitler, or just… Woodrow Wilson?
Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal, prevents us from confronting the neoliberal center, and demonizes a large segment of the population that we’d like to win over. There are better analogies out there, and ones that are closer to home.
Hitler Envy
Comparisons to Hitler or the Nazis are pervasive in our media environment. What is this reductio ad hitlerum doing for us?
Class Politics and Status Politics
An excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.
Render unto Ourselves, What is Ours—or Caesar Will Seize It
The political purpose of antifascism in the 21st century is not to stop the Right. It’s to discipline the Left.
